"Life is lived forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we stand on the mountain looking back through the valley that we can appreciate the terrain God has allowed us to scale.” Jill Savage

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Carpenter Mary Chapin Song: Your Life Story Album: The Calling

Maybe love is all anybody

Ever should believe in

Maybe life is just something

That employs us till we die

Maybe all we know

Is that the sun will come up every morning

Maybe time can choose

Whether to be earthbound or to fly

Everybody thinks they've got it down

I won't worry, the truth's always been found

In your life story

Maybe you're the one waiting

For the ship to find your harbor

Maybe you're the one looking

Past the forest to the trees

Maybe you still think

The older that you get

Life just gets harder

Maybe you would trade everything

For just one moment's peace

Everybody strains to hear the sound

Of their heart's calling

Now you can write yours down

It's your life story

Gather up your telegrams

Your faded pictures, best laid plans

Books and postcards, 45's

Every sunset in the sky

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights

Friends who make you sing

And stars to help you find your place

Music, hope and amazing grace

Maybe what we leave

Is nothing but a tangled little mystery

Maybe what we take

Is nothing that has ever had a name

Maybe love will fade

Like the parchment pages of our history

Maybe life is made of flickers

From some brilliant, burnished flame

Everybody's waiting for a sign

I won't worry, I think we'll be just fine

Surprised you with a song today - thought I'd try to do something different.

Your life story - it is unwritten starting this moment on. Isn't that way cool? I feel so lucky and blessed in my life. Sometimes when I think I should be down for some reason, I may get down for a day or two, but it doesn't last. Life is too damn short. There's much more good to concentrate on then there is bad to think about. It perks me up every time. Make sure your life's story is a happy one when you come to the end of it. It's a choice.

The following is from a very, very, very dear friend. She is a part of my life's story (which the Blog is a part of my story too). So I'm putting this letter in here - to always remember . . .

"Hi Chatty,We all love your blog...... I'm glad you're following your heart. When you need a break, you rest and do other things....when you need to write, you write, which I LOVE!!!!By the way, I love what you write about BREATHE...it's always such a wonderful reminder....so healthy....along with bananas!!! I sent it onto the kids and just sent it to you .....I was eating a banana as I read it. Do you like bananas? Just a thought....wouldn't it be fun to be in Tuscany together......breathing AND eating bananas??!!! ....:)You saw Under the Tuscan Sun right? Beautiful area....there is SO much beauty on this earth!!! Some of it's right in our backyard....as we drove down our street a couple hours ago and saw our cherry tree all abloom, as well as our tulips!!! We just left Friday afternoon around 3 p.m....so much can happen in the flower world in such a short period of time! Did you see Music and Lyrics? Saw it again last night with the kids...Hubby laughed SO HARD....we all were laughing together...another gift!Love,

J. Angel S."

Now isn't she a gift? She is so positive and wonderful. Hey, she sent me an article on bananas - all you guys out there - eat your bananas.

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I'm a Christian middle aged woman, wife, mother of two, and grandmother of two (wonderful boys).
I try to see the world with rose colored glasses on - but I am human too!
I love to laugh. I love to feel.
I would like to call myself a compassionate thinker.

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